Obligations to future generations

On its original publication, the journal Ethics devoted 30 pages to a review of Obligations to Future Generations, and the book is still frequently and extensively cited and discussed. The philosophical questions raised here centre around 'whether and to what degree it can be morally incumbent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sikora, Richard I., 1927-, Barry, Brian, 1936-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : White Horse Press, 1996.
Temas:
Social ethics.
Ethics.
Environmental ethics.
Ethics
Morale.
Éthique de l'environnement.
ethics (philosophy)
hominidae
generaties
generations
overleving
survival
morele waarden
moral values
ethiek
ethics
filosofie
philosophy
toekomst
future
sociale ethiek
social ethics
verantwoordelijkheid
responsibility
Ethics, Bioethics
Ethiek, bio-ethiek
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / R.I. Sikora and Brian Barry
  • [Should intrinsic value be placed on the preservation of mankind?]
  • Obligations to posterity / Thomas Schwartz
  • Do potential people have moral rights? / Mary Warren
  • In defense of the potentiality principle / William Anglin
  • Future people and us / Jan Narveson
  • On maximizing happiness / Jonathan Bennett
  • Environmental ethics and obligations to future generations / Robert Scott, Jr.
  • Classical utilitarianism and the population optimum / L.W. Sumner
  • Is it wrong to prevent the existence of future generations? / R.I. Sikora
  • [Assuming that future generations will exist and that the future population size is taken as given, what obligations do we have to future generations?]
  • Discounting versus maximum sustainable yield / Mary B. Williams
  • The futurity problem / Gregory Kavka
  • Circumstances of justice and future generations / Brian Barry.

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